Thanks Christoph. I actually have an external terminator on the device --
and the cable is <= a meter in length.
I talked with the people at Exabyte late yesterday and their opinion is that
the 'drive door sensor' might be faulty. That is why I get the door open bit
set when i do an 'mt status'.
Weird thing is .. this will be the second time I will have sent an Exabyte
8700 drive back due to this problem. Has anyone else had this sort of
problem with this particular model?
Thanks for all the help!
Shane
-----Original Message-----
From: Christoph Scheeder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 3:33 AM
To: Shane T. Ferguson
Cc: Amanda-Users
Subject: Re: Problem with Amcheck
Hi again,
I would do two things first:
1.) enable the termination on the adapter in the adapter-setup.
Sometimes automatic-termination mode does not do the expected.
2.) set the speed for all devices on this scsi-bus to 5MB/s,
and disable the ultra-mode-operation on this scsi-bus.
I remember reading somewhere that there are issus for the length
of scsi-cables and the operation in ultra-mode.
Under some conditions you are limited to a total cable-lengt of
something around one meter or so, espacely if you have ultra-devices
(controler) and normal devices (tapedrive) mixed on one scsi-bus.
And try an external terminator. sometimes devices claim to do internal
termination, but in reality the don't do a good work on that.
Hope it helps.
Christoph
"Shane T. Ferguson" schrieb:
>
> Hi,
> no, that won't be an issu, it is completly normal for linux.
> it always reports scsi-Tapes as st[0-x].
> how long is the external cable connected?
>
> The cable is only a few feet in length.
